Club Photo Shoot - Sunday 27th October - Mohill Horse Fair

 

Many members intending to participate in the scheduled photo shoot to Fowley Falls were disappointed this weekend when the weather men advised us to stay under our duvets. The storm predicted to send carpenters into a frenzy of raft building, never arrived! Those that took up the offer of participating in some indoor photography assembled in Boyle and encouraged by the parting clouds and blue sky, decided to head to the Horse Fair in Mohill. The rain stayed away and we had plenty of craic and took some photos too. Last time we intend to be dictated to by the weather men!! 

In the photo; Derek, Jordan, Geoff, Peter, Joe, Margie, Martina, Dermot and Des. Also there were Jason and Tony.

Club Photo Shoot - Sunday 27th October

'Fowley Falls' by Brian Munnelly

Club Photo Shoot next Sunday 27th October to Fowley Falls, Rossinver, Co. Leitrim. Meet at 9am on The Crescent Boyle for car-pool.
This is our second attempt to visit the falls after the shoot was cancelled due to bad weather some months ago. It would be great if we could meet up with members of the local Rainbow Camera Club for some expertise on other sites in the area.
Journey will take just over an hour from Boyle via Keadue and Manorhamilton. See map below.

BCC Annual General Meeting - 8th October 2013

In celebratory mood at this month's AGM, Paraic Brennan, Dermot Devine and Norman Little.

Election of New Committee Members

The club AGM proceeded as outlined in the Agenda below. Following Chairperson, Andy Rimmer's Welcome Address, Officers from the committee (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) read their annual reports. Subsequently, the new committee were proposed and seconded with a show of hands from the floor. Andy Rimmer will continue as Chairperson with Marion Noone as Secretary and Brian Munnelly as Treasurer. Desmond O'Dwyer and Jason Mallard remain as Motivation Secretary and Tech Advisor. Mary Lane and Tony Murphy will be joined by Joe Kennedy, Peter Kelly and Matthew Gammon to fill the remaining posts.

Club members expressed their sincere appreciation and gratitude to outgoing committee members Margaret Dolan, Debbie McCormack and Maeve Cormican for their exceptional dedication to the club these past years.

All motions, as outlined in the Agenda were adopted unanimously by members;

Annual Membership Fee to remain fixed at current rate.

Monthly Meeting Fee to go from €2.00 to €3.00.

Guest Presenter Fee for meetings will be €5.00 to cover expenses. It is envisaged to have three or four invited guests to present on specialist topics during the year.

Photographer of the Year Awards
This year's Photographer of the Year Awards were presented to Margaret Dolan (Intermediate), Noreen McNamara (Beginner) and Mick Nolan (Advanced). Congratulations to you all for the fine example shown to members during the year.

Photographers of The Year 2013 - L-R Margaret Dolan, Noreen McNamara and Mick Nolan. Also in the photo (third from left) club Chairperson, Andy Rimmer.

Motivation

Des O'Dwyer presented this month's Motivation. The theme for October was "Shop Fronts". Conor Dowling judged entries and gave a personal critique on selected shots. View members entries HERE.

Motivation Winners - left Mick Nolan - 'Cheeky Chique' top right Noreen McNamara - 'Face Lift' and bottom right Margaret Dolan - 'An Siopa Deas'.

The winners in each category were;

Advanced

1. 'Cheeky Chique' - Mick Nolan
2. 'Sorry Sir, We Don't Sell Forks' - Mick Nolan
3. 'Welcome Inn' - Desmond O'Dwyer

Intermediate

1. 'An Siopa Deas' - Margaret Dolan
2. 'Shop Front Untitled 1' Derek Fetherstone
3. 'Shop Front Untitled 2' - Derek Fetherstone

Beginners

1. 'Face Lift' - Noreen McNamara
2. 'Walsh Auctioneer' - Dan Lonergan
3. 'Step Back in Time' - Louise Payne

Next month's motivation theme is Transport. Members may submit up to FOUR images and remember, there is a PRINT CATEGORY for our November meeting - Print ONE of your selected images at A4 size. The image must be mounted (2 or 3 inch window-mount recommended)

email address for motivation submissions is;

motivationpics@gmail.com 

Entries on or before Friday 8th November

Panel Discussion

The second part of the meeting consisted of an open discussion among members to consider a 'vision' for the club in the year ahead. Here, members expressed particular interest in seeing the following issues addressed;

• Image Editing
• Printing
• Photo Shoots
• Film Photography

For more information on the discussion, see the minutes from the meeting HERE.

Other Items

• The new committee will meet on Tuesday 15th October at 8pm in Daly's Bar, Boyle.
• Members will be notified of the Photo Shoot location and date shortly.
• Next Club Meeting will take place at 8pm on Tuesday 12th November in St. Joseph's Resource Centre, Boyle.

BCC Members Win 5-Firsts at Discover Bundoran Amateur Photography Event - 13th October 2013

 

'Discover Bundoran' held an amateur photography event this weekend (details here) and five members of Boyle Camera Club won First prize in separate categories of the competition. The over-all competition winner was Margaret Dolan with her image 'Lines'. (Top photo). Other winners were;

Nature/Wildlife - Mary Lane - 'Tall Trees' (second line left)

Sports/Action - Catherine Mullarkey - 'Lesson in Progress' (second line right)
Water Sports Surf - Martina Morris - 'Let the Action Begin' (bottom left)
and Landscape - Marty Cooke - 'Bundoran Landscape' (bottom right)

Sincere congratulation to you all!

Printing Service for BCC Members

One of the items that was flagged during discussions at our recent AGM was the issue of PRINTING. Printing is certainly to be encouraged since printing photos, being the obvious consolidating factor in the photographic process, is not practiced regularly by many members. Home printing seems to be a daunting, complicated and expensive option for amateur digital photographers, often with unsatisfactory results. Empowering members with the confidence to make their own prints through workshops and informative presentations will be one of the areas we hope to address in the year ahead. Last year we had a number of Motivations with an optional 'print' category and this will certainly continue. In fact, this year we intend to put considerable emphasis on demystifying post-production and printing processes.

Conor Dowling, who judged this month's Motivation, is returning to the club after a busy year being involved with developing the Boyle Civic Art Collection. For the past number of years, he has printed members photos for our annual exhibition in Boyle Library. Conor is now offering a very competitive printing service to club members who wish to print photos for Motivation submission and framing.

Inkjet Prints in Colour and Black & White on semi-gloss/lustre, professional quality photo paper.

A4 - €3.50

A3 and A3+ - €12.00

Club members can send EDITED, HIGH RESOLUTION, JPEG files via WeTransfer (see note below) to info@sonarsolutions.com

Prints can be collected by arrangement at Boyle Enterprise Centre.

This is a really easy solution and great deal for members who wish to finally print those special images gathering dust on hard-drives. Seriously, no excuses now!!

WeTransfer is a FREE on-line, file sharing website where files up to 2GB in size can be uploaded. The user adds the email address of the intended recipient of the file, then WeTransfer sends a notification email to the recipient who can then download the file to their computer. WeTransfer holds the file on it's server for one-week, at which point they remove it. The beauty of this facility is that email servers do not get clogged or emails bounced back to sender. A very useful site to have 'bookmarked'!

Derek Fetherstone wins IFA Farmers Journal Photo Competition

Congratulations to Derek Fetherstone on winning the IFA Farmers Journal Calendar Competition with his excellent photo taken on Inisbofin, titled "A Summer Breeze". See more of Derek's photos on his Flickr site HERE.

Camera Phone Photography - An Appreciation

This from Jason Mallard.
"Camera phone photography continues to separate photographers in their opinion on its validity. I have long been in the pro camera phone photography camp and enjoy the work of photographers like Richard Koci Hernandez. If you have not seen seen his work then I suggest you treat yourself and see what is possible with a meager camera phone and a great (photographers) eye.

Mr R.K.H has a video (below) on his thoughts on this new era of photography that struck a chord with my own views. What ever your own opinion (you are welcome to have one :o)) I thought it would be a good one to share with the members."

Jason's has also prepared a very extensive document on Camera Phone Photography that he is sharing with members HERE.

Well done Jason.

AGM Agenda - Tuesday 8th October

Boyle Camera Club will hold it's Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 8th October at 8pm in St. Joseph's Resource Centre, Boyle. All club members and interested members of the public are welcome to attend.

Club members interested in putting their name forward for election to the new committee should notify the club secretary at info@boylecameraclub.com as soon as possible. The officers posts to be filled are; Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Motivation Secretary and Technical Adviser.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows;

• Chairperson's Address
• Officers Reports - Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer
• Motions for members consideration (see previous post)
• Election of Committee for 2013-2014
• Monthly Meeting Fee
• Annual Membership fee
• Guest presenter fee
• Photographer of The Year Award

• Refreshments

• Desmond O'Dwyer presents this month's Motivation. The theme for October is "Shop Fronts". Members photos available to view HERE (soon). NB Members are reminded that this month there is a PRINT category for this month's Motivation. Andy Rimmer will judge entries.

• Discussion - This will be an open conversation with members to consider a vision for the club as it moves into a new season. Committee members will present thoughts and ideas on a range of topics including group sessions, photo shoots, workshops, IPF distinctions and the Christmas party.

All members are encouraged to attend.

We look forward to seeing you all.